Greater minds than ours (well, most of ours) have access to the statistics and measurements of the traffic you speak of Steve. If they’re not worried, then neither am I.
In another lifetime I designed international computer networks mostly for VoIP (voice over ip {internetworking protocol, as in TCP-IP, the language of the Internet}) running phone calls over computer networks to avoid long distance charges. One thing I know from that career is that the massive routers (Cisco, Juniper…) playing traffic cop all across the globe actually do a pretty darn good job of reducing the amount of unnecessary traffic across most of the Internet. Also there are many safeguards against gridlock and anything approaching “grinding to a halt”. It’s a fascinating topic but also an amazing cure for insomnia, so I’m out.
PW